El doble subjetivo y el enigma de la locura criminal en / Babel-ville / de Joseph Bialot

Abstract

Through this article we would like to explore not only the image of the double but also its functions in Bialot’s novel Babel-ville. To do so, we would like to take into account those theoretical studies that Jung, Rank or Jourde and Tortonese (among others) have carried out on this subject from a literary and s psychological point of view. We will analyse the main character’s criminal madness as a procedure to generate a double which does not match up with the figure of a human being, as if our main character’s pulsions (his unconscious part) were not human at all. So our main purpose in this article will focus on the study of Bernard, the main male character of Bialot’s novel, Babel-ville, which should be considered as a good sample of what literary criticism is inclined to call black novel. That’s why we will try to see how Babel-ville sticks to the main characteristics of these literary manifestations, which, by the way, seem to appear really suitable when an author tries to look into the enigmatic mystery of the double-being in literature.

Keywords

• Joseph Bailot
• double and madness
• black novel
• French Literature of the 20th century.